those contemporary Hanafi jurists who have claimed that the head covering is specifically for a woman while she is at home, and the [outer garment] when she leaves her home. Whoever wishes may refer to it (pp. 38–40).

484—(The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “When Allah intends good for a person, He gives him an admonisher from within himself.”) Al-Irāqī said: “Al-Daylamī narrated it in Musnad al-Firdaws with a good chain of transmission.”) p. 288

I say: What I found in al-Hāfiz al-Irāqī’s Takhrīj al-Ihyā’ (4/282) actually reads: “...with a fair chain of transmission.” Yet in my view, his grading it as fair is open to question, because al-Daylamī’s chain (p. 93—facsimile of Zahr al-Firdaws) includes al-Qāsim ibn Abī Sālih. His memory deteriorated when his books were lost, and it is not known whether he narrated this hadith before or after that. Moreover, the chain leading to him includes Alī ibn Abd al-Hamīd, a fifth-century narrator for whom I could find no biographical entry. I have set out these points in detail in The Series of Weak Hadiths (2124). Allah is the One who grants success.

Written in

Damascus, 1387/4/8

Muhammad Nāsir al-Dīn al-Albānī

Our teacher al-Albānī—may Allah preserve him—wrote these words before undertaking his important and valuable work: dividing al-Suyūtī’s al-Jāmi al-Saghīr, together with its supplement al-Fath al-Kabīr, into two sections: Sahīh al-Jāmi al-Saghīr and its counterpart, Daīf al-Jāmi al-Saghīr. Both were subsequently published, praise be to Allah, each section in six volumes, with a highly beneficial introduction that assists anyone consulting al-Jāmi al-Saghīr or the other books from which it draws.

(Zuhayr)